God has always sought a humble people. He can use no other…There is always much need of heart preparation, in humility and separation, before God can consistently come. The depth of any revival will be determined exactly by the spirit of repentance that is obtained. In fact this is key to every true revival born of God
– Frank Bartlemen –
A proud heart never praises God, for it hoards up praise for itself.
– Charles Spurgeon –
from the sermon “Praise Your God. O Zion” (February 25, 1866)
Watch the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of reviewing to you the kind of person you have been to Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get in the light. … Now he gives you the gift of humiliation which brings the softness of heart that will always listen to God now.
– Oswald Chambers –
As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, [it should be] for us to be humble.
– Andrew Murray –
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
– John Flavel –
(1627-1691)
Just as our Lord came into human history from the outside, so He must come into us from the outside. Have we allowed our personal human lives to become a “Bethlehem” for the Son of God?
– Oswald Chambers –
May our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Lived 1600-1661
God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
– Dwight L. Moody –